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The news of Mayor Rob Ford’s infamous and as-yet-publicly-unseen alleged crack video being in police hands caught the attention of the rest of the world.

The New York Times got a hold of Toronto’s latest scandal, describing how “journalists at both Gawker and The Star celebrated on Thursday” when the city’s police chief announced the existence of a video “consistent with that which had previously been described in various media reports.”

USA Today called Canada’s most controversial politician the “beefy, blond mayor,” noting that “feisty” Ford has, in the past, denied using crack cocaine and has “claimed the video didn’t exist.”

The Guardian from the U.K. reported Blair’s announcement that cops have dug up the video from a hard drive through an investigation that “ensnared” the mayor’s former occasional driver and friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi.

The latest development was also published online by the BBC — which reported Ford as having a “folksy image and a very public battle with his weight” — as well as in the American version of Daily Mail, and the Washington Times.

New York Magazine wrote that even though Ford “has not been charged with anything,” the embattled mayor “still seems incredibly screwed.”

Time magazine tweeted a link to its story — complete with an uploaded version of the much anticipated court documents — by noting Ford apparently met with alleged drug dealer and friend Lisi “more than 100 times.”

Vanity Fair took a lighter tone, calling the recovered video “an independently produced amateur documentary” that is the “most anticipated film of the year.”

Meanwhile, American gossip website Gawker didn’t beat around any bushes with its headline: “The Rob Ford Crack Tape Is Real, and the Police Have It.”

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Ford scandal makes global headlines

The news of Mayor Rob Ford’s infamous and as-yet-publicly-unseen alleged crack video being in police hands caught the attention of the rest of the world.

The New York Times got a hold of Toronto’s latest scandal, describing how “journalists at both Gawker and The Star celebrated on Thursday” when the city’s police chief announced the existence of a video “consistent with that which had previously been described in various media reports.”

USA Today called Canada’s most controversial politician the “beefy, blond mayor,” noting that “feisty” Ford has, in the past, denied using crack cocaine and has “claimed the video didn’t exist.”